One of Heroes’ best innovations was that it told stories on a global scale. Creator Tim Kring’s next series, Touch, also had some of those themes.

While we are all anxiously awaiting Heroes Reborn, Kring has a new series that he co-created, and it premieres Thursday, March 5 at 10PM on USA. It’s called DIG, it stars Jason Isaacs and Anne Heche, and it looks pretty cool. Like Heroes Reborn, it is a limited-run event series, though if the ratings and reaction are good, lead character Peter Connelly could always go on a new adventure.

You can read an interview we did with Mr. Kring about the project here. A trailer can be found below:

Tying in with today’s TCA Press Tour day for NBC, the network has confirmed that Zachary Levi will be starring in Heroes Reborn, and their official press release also confirms some of the producers that will be involved with the new show, including Holly Harold, whose credits include Smallville and Arrow.

IGN’s Roth Cornet caught up with Hannibal executive producer Bryan Fuller recently; Heroes fans might remember him best for contributing some of the original series’ best moments to the first season and for his brief return later on.

“I would love to see Heroes restored to the respect it had in that first season,” Fuller said, recalling the great moments of producing Season 1. “I think that would be wonderful. The show certainly deserves it, and I would love to see it. It’s absolutely possible.”

Christopher Eccleston may have opted out of returning to another franchise that he was known for last year, but he told MTV News that he’d be interested in returning to the role of invisible man “Claude” for Heroes Reborn.

“Of course, yeah, I had a great time on the show!” Eccleston said. “Yeah. I’d always be interested. That was a great character. I love that guy.”

I can count the most visceral reactions I’ve had reading news courtesy of the Internet.

There’s been three.

The first came sometime in 2011, when I was a sophomore in college. One night I was sitting in my bed in my dorm at Arkansas State University, browsing Twitter. At some point my brain registered the key phrases, “Michael Rosenbaum,” “Smallville” and “series finale” in some order and I somehow didn’t black out.

No, instead I leapt from my bed and danced in the middle of the floor.

The second came more than a year later, on Oct. 30, 2012.

I was sitting in a photo lab in the journalism department at ASU, actively avoiding whatever lesson was being taught that day. This may or may not have involved me photoshopping myself in to the twin sun set scene from “Star Wars: Episode IV.”

I have no idea if this put me in the right mind set to read the news that CNBC broke at 3:53 PM, once again via Twittter:

The latest update to the official Heroes page lists a “Summer 2015″ premiere date near the top. If that information didn’t confirm it, these words do:

Revitalized, re-energized and reborn, the Heroes saga continues in the summer of 2015 as new and returning characters collide in the epic and never-ending battle between the powers of good and the forces of evil.